KRISTOFF. I doubt you will wait more than two minutes at any traffic lights in Townsville. Check your dash clock next time. GP, SOUTH.
TB 7/6 LNP plan to stamp out youth crime, finally after five years of total mayhem and repeated calls to the three sitting silent MLAS to get youth crime under control, a party appears to be listening to the fed-up people of the Ville, this election can’t come soon enough, TR, 4818
Sorry Carl Pimlico, still don’t get it. No quarantine for passengers who arrived? MHV, 4810
I’ve said it before and I say it again, the big issue in T’ville on election day will be juvenile break, enter & steal your car and the revolving doors of the judicial system. No one, except the closed mind biased rusted-ons, could possibly rate the three mice performance in the last five years better than one or possibly two out of 10. Woeful, they will pay the price on October 31. PEDRO, CRANBROOK
Azza is spot on about Townsville traffic lights. Without doubt the worst lights in the state for overuse of red right-turn arrows when there are hundreds of metres of visibility ahead. Sadly, we have red arrows because morons seem to forget you have to give way to oncoming traffic. GROWLER, 4810
Carl Walker, we recently saw 10 people living in a two-bedroom room. The backpackers were told by their employer if they said anything they would be deported. They were charged 150 a week to sleep there, no food or nothing supplied. I won’t start on their wages. GF ANNANDALE 4814. Please keep the Queensland borders closed. We have all done so well in limiting the number of COVID-19 cases in our state. Let’s not ruin the work done over the past four months by opening the QLD border. Support each other in QLD and QLD business but keep the border closed. SS, AYR
In answer to Meg Pimlico, I can say that a lot of Grey Nomads are on the road for ever. Their caravan is their house. That might explain why you have seen vans with Victorian number plates. It doesn’t necessarily mean they have just driven up. They keep their rego in their home states, perhaps holding a PO address. Rego in Victoria is cheaper than most other states. WARREN, 4814
Dear Editor, you need to stop printing that racist rubbish from Ross Reid in North Ward. Cutting tendons? A fortnight’s food?? Just dumb, ignorant nonsense. BILLY, HOME HILL
I’ve just had visitors from Bris who’ve travelled extensively, and they agree with you, Kristoff and Azza, Townsville traffic lights are abysmal, worst they’ve seen! Who’s setting them, preschoolers? AGS HERMIT PK
Just read a wonderful children’s book, Hanna the Honey Bee, by Lyn Rose. Great story and illustrations for young ones JEK, 4812
Grandad blasted by magistrate, TB July 7. I dare say magistrates wouldn’t have a clue about the fears and concerns of citizens on struggle street. Looking out from a perch on Yarrawonga or a gated estate, the good judge wouldn’t know what it feels like to be at the mercy of the grubs that roam our streets, and would be oblivious to the fact that the courts that they preside over keep returning the grubs to the streets to commit even more crimes. Don’t be disheartened, Lindsay Sargent. My home is my castle and I will defend it too. BARRY SMAIL, STUART.
Nita Green Labor Senator says jobs directed at Covid recovery are directed at men. How low can Labor go. Really. Any woman who wants a job in mining, road works, transport or manufacturing can get a job if jobs are there. Is it because the Labor Senator is trying to get headlines for woeful State Gov or is she so out if touch with get-yourhands-dirty work that she posts this ridiculous letter? RAY, KELSO
If any of the recent traffic light ranters got out of their cars occasionally, they might notice signage indicating that some pedestrian crossings have been temporarily automated to obviate the need for button-pressing. STEVE, BELGIAN GARDENS